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I have an invention. Where do I start?
Four questions that decide what you should do this month.
The disclosure is likely to count against you in India.
That is not the same as nothing being possible. Two questions decide how much is left.
- What was not disclosed? Mechanisms, parameters and methods absent from the public material can still support claims.
- Which countries matter? Grace periods differ, and a disclosure fatal in India may not be fatal everywhere.
- Gather the evidence now - dates, copies, recordings, who saw what. That record is what any later argument depends on.
- Section 31 covers only gazette-notified exhibitions and papers read before a learned society. Check whether it applies before assuming it does.
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This is educational guidance, not personalised legal advice. It cannot see your documents, your dates or the prior art, and those are usually what decide the answer. Use it to understand the question, then take advice on your own facts.
Not sure whether this applies to your invention?
The honest answer usually needs someone to look at your actual disclosure, your timeline and the prior art. That is a conversation, not an article.